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BU produced tools for diversity, a Method Deck to Diversity and the film, RUFUS STONE contribute greatly to the success of impact efforts at the University. “It is important to remember that impact is not always a moment in the sun, then yesterday’s news”. Bournemouth University colleagues Kip Jones and Lee-Ann Fenge discuss the “long […]

You are cordially invited to attend the gala 5th Anniversary Screening and Reception for the award-winning research based biopic, RUFUS STONE. The Event will be held at the historic Shelley Theatre in Boscombe 7 November from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. Over the past five years, RUFUS STONE has been viewed in academic, community and […]

The research-based biopic RUFUS STONE has just been shortlisted for the AHRC Research in Film Anniversary Prize for best AHRC funded film since 1998. A central strand of the activities taking place throughout 2015 to mark the AHRC’s tenth anniversary, the awards attracted nearly 200 entries across the five categories. The awards are designed […]

The award-winning, short film, RUFUS STONE, based entirely on research carried out at Bournemouth University on older people in terms of isolation and connectivity, rurality and sexuality, and funded by Research Councils UK, has been available for viewing on Vimeo on the Internet since early this year. As of today, more than 10,000 people worldwide […]

Bournemouth University offers two opportunities to learn how in-depth research was turned into the award-winning biopic, RUFUS STONE. Premiered in 2012 at Bournemouth, the film has gone on to be screened by universities and by service providers across the UK and abroad. Since the first of the year, the film has also been available for […]

Bournemouth University is pleased to announce that the research-based, award-winning short film, RUFUS STONE, is now live and can be viewed for FREE on the Internet. View RUFUS STONE here: https://vimeo.com/109360805 The University has championed the film as ‘an outstanding example of public engagement at BU’ and as ‘inspirational’ in the University’s Annual Report. RUFUS […]

RUFUS STONE Q&A following screening at Keele University Qualitative Psychology Conference The academic impact of the research-based film RUFUS STONE, is certainly rewarding. In addition to a long list of publications produced by the project team (Jones, Fenge, Read & Cash), the film is now highlighted in several academic publications by esteemed authors, including Patricia […]

By Sociological Imagination on December 22, 2013 • ( 0 ) A four-year research project at Bournemouth University, “Gay and Pleasant Land?—a study about positioning, ageing and gay life in rural South West England and Wales”, took place as part of the Research Councils UK-funded New Dynamics of Ageing Programme on ageing in 21st Century […]

Special screenings of the award-winning, research-based film at Bournemouth University’s Lansdowne Campus PUBLIC WELCOME! Free both days. No need to register. Just show up! Monday, 9 December, 1 pm Tuesday 10 December at 2:30 pm Wollstonecraft Theatre (BG10) Bournemouth House, Christchurch Rd RUFUS STONE has been viewed widely in academic settings over the past […]

Just published! A chapter entitled, ‘Turning Research into Film’, by Kip Jones and Trevor Hearing has just been published in Sage’s Qualitative Research for the Social Sciences edited by Marilyn Lichtman. The full title of the Chapter: Turning Research into Film: Trevor Hearing speaks with Kip Jones about the process of creating the short research-based film, […]

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February 22, 2018

BU produced tools for diversity, a Method Deck to Diversity and the film, RUFUS STONE contribute greatly to the success of impact efforts at the University. “It is important to remember that impact is not always a moment in the sun, then yesterday’s news”. Bournemouth University colleagues Kip Jones and Lee-Ann Fenge discuss the “long […]

July 13, 2016

You are cordially invited to attend the gala 5th Anniversary Screening and Reception for the award-winning research based biopic, RUFUS STONE. The Event will be held at the historic Shelley Theatre in Boscombe 7 November from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. Over the past five years, RUFUS STONE has been viewed in academic, community and […]

September 15, 2015

The research-based biopic RUFUS STONE has just been shortlisted for the AHRC Research in Film Anniversary Prize for best AHRC funded film since 1998. A central strand of the activities taking place throughout 2015 to mark the AHRC’s tenth anniversary, the awards attracted nearly 200 entries across the five categories. The awards are designed […]

August 20, 2015

The award-winning, short film, RUFUS STONE, based entirely on research carried out at Bournemouth University on older people in terms of isolation and connectivity, rurality and sexuality, and funded by Research Councils UK, has been available for viewing on Vimeo on the Internet since early this year. As of today, more than 10,000 people worldwide […]

April 29, 2015

Bournemouth University offers two opportunities to learn how in-depth research was turned into the award-winning biopic, RUFUS STONE. Premiered in 2012 at Bournemouth, the film has gone on to be screened by universities and by service providers across the UK and abroad. Since the first of the year, the film has also been available for […]

November 13, 2014

Bournemouth University is pleased to announce that the research-based, award-winning short film, RUFUS STONE, is now live and can be viewed for FREE on the Internet. View RUFUS STONE here: https://vimeo.com/109360805 The University has championed the film as ‘an outstanding example of public engagement at BU’ and as ‘inspirational’ in the University’s Annual Report. RUFUS […]

April 9, 2014

RUFUS STONE Q&A following screening at Keele University Qualitative Psychology Conference The academic impact of the research-based film RUFUS STONE, is certainly rewarding. In addition to a long list of publications produced by the project team (Jones, Fenge, Read & Cash), the film is now highlighted in several academic publications by esteemed authors, including Patricia […]

December 23, 2013

By Sociological Imagination on December 22, 2013 • ( 0 ) A four-year research project at Bournemouth University, “Gay and Pleasant Land?—a study about positioning, ageing and gay life in rural South West England and Wales”, took place as part of the Research Councils UK-funded New Dynamics of Ageing Programme on ageing in 21st Century […]

December 5, 2013

Special screenings of the award-winning, research-based film at Bournemouth University’s Lansdowne Campus PUBLIC WELCOME! Free both days. No need to register. Just show up! Monday, 9 December, 1 pm Tuesday 10 December at 2:30 pm Wollstonecraft Theatre (BG10) Bournemouth House, Christchurch Rd RUFUS STONE has been viewed widely in academic settings over the past […]

October 3, 2013

Just published! A chapter entitled, ‘Turning Research into Film’, by Kip Jones and Trevor Hearing has just been published in Sage’s Qualitative Research for the Social Sciences edited by Marilyn Lichtman. The full title of the Chapter: Turning Research into Film: Trevor Hearing speaks with Kip Jones about the process of creating the short research-based film, […]

Project Scope

The Gay and Pleasant Land? Project is a research project that took place as part of the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme (a unique collaboration between five UK Research Councils—ESRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC and AHRC) on ageing in 21st Century Britain.

The project, “Gay and Pleasant Land?—a study about positioning, ageing and gay life in rural South West England and Wales” (GPL) took place over three years. Gay and Pleasant Land

Film Production

Josh Appignanesi, London-based filmmaker, script writer and director, has been chosen to direct a short film based in three years of research at Bournemouth University.

The film, Rufus Stone, will tell the story of being gay and growing older in the British countryside.

Research Findings

We have published two of several forthcoming articles on the research process: ‘Connecting Participatory Methods in a Study of Older Lesbian and Gay Citizens in Rural Areas’ in the International Journal of Qualitative Research and ‘Exploring Sexuality, Ageing and Rurality in a Multi-Method, Performative Project’ is available electronically from the British Journal of Social Work.